In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is “The Running Man” — a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death. Having been made a scapegoat by the government, an imprisoned Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to make it back to the outside again by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), has no intention of letting him escape. Commissioned by Jeramiah W. (5/6/24).

Release date: November 13, 1987 (USA)
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Story by: Stephen King
Distributed by: TriStar Pictures, Republic Pictures
Adapted from: The Running Man, The Prize of Peril
Movie end song: Restless Heart